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do you like the book Infimum Jubilee by Daniel Fisher Watson?
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More like Infirm Joke by Dreadful Fasionable Writer
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I liked Twilight more.
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>>8189899
>Dreadful
*Dreadfully*
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Did you enjoy the Summer Solstice Full Moon ?
It appears as if the full moon and June solstice won’t fall on the same calendar date again until June 21, 2062
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Solstice and full moon both fall on June 20, 2016, for the first time since 1967, aka the Summer of Love.
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Also known as the Flower Moon, Rose Moon, or Honey Moon
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I went kayaking with my gf at a lake near my house and we watched the sun set on one side while the full moon rose over the trees in the opposite direction.
Was a great time tbqh.
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I don't know if this is the right board to post this on, this is actually my first time on /lit/, but I thought you all would be the best people to ask.
That is, how do you muster the motivation to write? For years I've been imagining stories and premises and I desperately want to actually write them down, but I just can't. Every time I try I just end up sitting there with the blank paper looking back at me. Half of the time I can't summon the motivation, always saying to myself that I'll do it tomorrow for sure. The other half of the time I end up getting anxious about how no one will like what I wrote and that I'll just be considered a failure.
So please, I need to know, how can I actually sit down and write something? I need help.
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>>8189712
Try having a couple of drinks.
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>>8189712
it only gets more difficult to rationalize from this point on, friendo.
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Just start jotting ideas down. Snippets of conversation, plot ideas, etc. Don't bother trying to make it good. Then begin writing down something, anything. Choose a starting point and let go. Make it a haphazard stream of consciousness if you want to. Let your imagination flow freely. Ideally, in time, you will get the hang of it, and will be able to better structure and organize your ideas, and that's when the real work starts.
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Anyone else read this book? I just finished it a couple days ago. I picked it up without knowing what it was about besides the location. Mexico fascinates me, and this book portrays the country in all its strangeness and wonder very well.
I have a strange longing for treasure, that I might bury it for my future offspring and live joyously knowing it's mine, so this novel really gripped my attention. The book shows also the worth of labor, and I didn't mind all the commie stuff Traven spewed. I think this is a very unique story.
In a way, it reminded me of Breaking Bad, but I can't quite place how. I'm interested in seeing what others have to say about it
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>>8189152
man, what a great dlc. i hope they make more like it in fallout 4
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>>8189168
What?
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>>8189152
Traven is great. Try The Desth Ship next....
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>wrote mostly poems this past semester
>want to get back into writing short stories
>don't really have any ideas or a large number of experiences to draw from
Few questions:
How do you practice if you're an anxious recluse who doesn't live rambunctiously like your peers? Do you study Tao Lin and learn how to write about mundane subject matter? Do you wait for more life experience to accumulate and focus on structure/style by writing about experiences you've already had?
It seems to me like writing about past experiences is a good way of practicing structure/style because it ignores the quality of the short story's ideas; I think it probably focuses your energy on *how* you relate a story rather than *what* you're relating.
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Have you ever thought of reading poetry? And maybe literature? And getting ideas?
The fact you say study tao lin out of everyone is embarrassing.
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>>8189053
>How do you practice if you're an anxious recluse who doesn't live rambunctiously like your peers?
you do the woody allen thing and write about the same few events a thousand times over
>It seems to me like writing about past experiences is a good way of practicing structure/style because it ignores the quality of the short story's ideas;
it is. also writing isn't about 'ideas', it's about words.
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>>8189053
I think people here use the word "experiences" in too narrow of a sense. You don't need to go fight a war, fuck a bitch, and or have an orgy to find something interesting to write about.
Just pay close attention to what is happening around you and read interesting things.
It's the great the burden that many have to face I think. It isn't necessarily what you have experienced that is average. You just are.
Was he gay?
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>>8188961
>>>/Google/
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>>8188961
We're all gay here, Bruh.
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>>8188961
I think the more important question is, "who is not gay?"
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Would In Search of Lost Time be worth committing to if you're constantly ruminating on all of your regrets?
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ha ha ur gay
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>>8188842
do samatha meditation. the past is clung to only by normies [which makes them sad]
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>>8188982
you are sad because you used the term 'normies'
What are some books that'll make me look smart to women even though I'm not? I'm thinking notes from underground/dostoevsky, as i lay dying/faulkner, and pynchon.
pic unrelated.
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The Bible is the only way my friend.
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice cream.
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Remembrance of Things Past (One-Volume Edition)
Or novels written by women: Jane Eyre, The Waves, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, The Italian, The Luminaries, Aphra Behn, Hester Biddle, Lady Mary Wroth, Lady Anne Clifford, Margaret Cavendish, Sappho, Barbara Comyns, Magda Szabó, etc.
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is this a good short story
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>>8188677
Again, no: it's edgy and blandly written. Please just give up.
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>>8188683
thank u
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>>8188683
what is edgy
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What are you drinking and reading tonight /lit/?
Pic related and One Hundred Years of Solitude for me
I just wanna console Ursula
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>>8188670
straight out the bottle
reading Dale Pendell's "Pharmako/Gnosis"
here, have an excerpt:
>would it not be wonderful
>to rise together
>through the wrath, through the jou
>of angry fire, all that is dross
>burning away. Would it not be wonderful
>to enter the Watery Place
>Sacrifice is Soma - the primal poison, the churning of the lingam in the Milky Way - the elixir created by the alliance of gods and demons.
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>40 of steel reserve
>drinking it out of a glass
???
I'm reading Low Life by Luc Sante and drinking pineapple kombucha.
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about to rummage through my parents' liquor cabinet to find something to sip on. drinking because i don't feel like reading, or doing anything else, really.
will probably just watch debates / interviews on youtube for the rest of the night
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times novels were too honest
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>The sex play of children has always gone on. Everyone, I guess, who is not abnormal has foregathered with little girls in some dim leafy place, in the bottom of a manger, under a willow, in a culvert under a road—or at least has dreamed of doing so. Nearly all parents are faced with the problem sooner or later, and then the child is lucky if the parent remembers his own childhood.
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>>8188506
>muh timshel
Kys
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>>8188506
>and then the child is lucky if the parent remembers his own childhood.
Such a good book.
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>>8188506
What's so bad about it.
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What is the best way to go about learning Latin and (Ancient) Greek?
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start off by not doing that
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>>8188392
Alright, and then what?
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>>8188401
Continue to not do it
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hey /lit/, rate this excerpt from my novel
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>>8188001
Ok ok ok all jokes aside where did you get this fucking kek
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>>8188001
it should be pretty sad if you want to kill the first survivor whom you met
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>>8188001
Oh shit, movie when?
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If i told you there was something called The dragontails, what is the first thing that comes to your mind
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>>8187763
I immediately think of an semi-literate Fantasyshit pleb
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This tbbh
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>>8187774
sci-fi/fantasy > you
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Where should i start with Cicero? and which are the best translations?
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That is a man's foot.
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>>8187714
Really makes you think...
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>>8187708
Honest question, do footfags realize how rancid feet can smell and is that part of the appeal?